northanger abbey part 2!

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wow! that was great! i really liked it :) i think i may even like it better than any other JA adaptation, shocking i know! i need to see it again though, you can never tell with only one viewing can you? i've seen at least one outfit i really want to recreate, i think my urge to make the regency wardrobe for the jane austen festival has just increased, 'an hundred fold' as jane would say. hee, i'm so excited, yay!!!!

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I can't believe I forgot that was coming on tonight! Gah! I wonder if they will reshow it as they do with many programs. I'll have to search the listings for Sky. Sunday is my Lost night so I wasn't thinking about it, but I have the capability of recording two shows at once. Hopefully, I'll find it and I'll definitely mark it for Mansfield Park, which I have always loved.

I know what you mean about wanting a new wardrobe for the festival. I recently got a book of Ackermann prints and there are a couple of outfits I am dying to recreate. I keep looking at them and cooing over them. One is a lovely pelisse which would be perfect for the Promenade during the first weekend and the second is an evening gown which would be great for the second weekend.

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Apparently its already out on DVD.

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it is indeed out on DVD, i started looking on amazon before it had even finished!

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i hate to break it to you, but mansfield park was last week :( it's persuasion next sunday, with a documentary (on ITV3 i think) as well.
but if mansfield park is your favourite you would not have liked it anyway, in some ways it was a worse representation of the book than the 2000 film.
i don't need a new wardrobe, i need a first wardrobe, i've never been to the festival! and probably won't get there this year either, i expect all of the tickets for the ball have been sold already? i have that book too, it's wonderful, isn't it? but why do period dramas never have the neck ruffs and ruffles? they look so pretty :)

[my-stitching.livejournal.com]

I agree. I definitely want the neck ruffles under the pelisse. My situation is more of a first wardrobe as well. I really only have three day dresses though one of them is passable as a simple early Regency ball gown. I think they are probably a bit on the small side now too. I want to start sewing so badly, but I promised myself that I would inventory my huge fabric stash and completely unpack the room before I started doing projects. I know if I don't do it first, it will never get done.

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by the looks of things with your inventory you're going to be atill at it this time next year!! if you use the fabric you posted about, and have ruffles your pelise will be great :)

[myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com]

I loved it though I did wonder if they had squashed the story a bit - the end seemed a teensy bit rushed but then I haven't yet read the book. It is on my To Read list after the full Harry Potter series and the sewing marathon I am now in the middle of for my Kentwell costuming.

And I SO want to make a pretty Jane Austen dress!! Catherine's gown for the first soiree where she met Mr Tylney is VERY similar in fabric to a lovely sprigged silk I have!!

And yes, my wish is to go to the Jane Austen Festival this September. I've kept missing it over the past 3 or 4 years!!!

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nope, the end in the book is perhaps even more rushed than theirs!!! she ties it all up very nicely :) needles to say she doesn't have a christening in it though! i loved the costuming, catherine's dress for their ball in the lower rooms is perfect, mr tilney DOES say she'll write in her journal about her 'spriged muslin with the blue trimmings' and her dress is almost exactly what i imagine her in for that ball whenever i read the book.
you really should read it, it's the funniest book she wrote, totally taking the p out of the genre of gothic novels :p the film they did in the 80s took her seriously, and actually thought she had written a gothic novel, not just a spoof of one, the sillies :)
i've been meaning to go to the festival for ages too, i envy you going to kentwell, maybe i'll have to visit as a pleb and see if i can spot you :)

[myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com]

Oh, please do come and visit Kentwell. I will be in either a blue kirtle with black doublet or in a sort of silvery kirtle/doublet with chocolate brown overgown (making pictures will slowly start to appear on my LJ soon).

"Northanger Abbey" is definitely on my to read list. I have a lovely Folio set which are gorgeous with delightful illustrations - just not suitable for reading on a train to and from work (and anyway, I tend to sew on the train a lot now!)

Jane Austen had such a wicked sense of humour!!! ;-)

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if you have the illustrations i think then you're in for a treat :p
and i'd love to come and visit, what 'role' are you playing?
she did have a wonderful sence of humour, and it's such a shame they ignore it for so many adaptations.

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We are portraying the year 1584 and I will be playing Lady Anne Heigham wife to Sir John Heigham of Barrow, Bury St Edmunds. He has been an MP and will probably be one in September 1584.(My husband edmndclotworthy is playing sir John).

We are visiting our neighbours the Clopton Family at Kentwell Hall.

It is a lot of fun to see though I do recommend coming for the opening time of 11am because to see everything needs the whole day.

Apparently you can book and pay for tickets online now: Kentwell Hall

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you must have so much fun :) but i would be far too shy to do it. how long have you been going? i guess pretty long to have such a high rank? or does it not work that way?
and i love his name :p i thought perhaps he chose it because that's the name he uses at kentwell, so is it an old name?